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I know I mentioned in the return post that the old D&D group kind of fell apart. What I didn’t mention is that I’m still DMing a much, much smaller group using the Pathfinder system.

While I appreciated that there were a lot of awesome people in the old D&D group, I don’t have the energy for running and keeping track of 12 people. Right now the hard cap is set at five players. I think this is a good number. There are downsides to having so few players. One is as my rule if at least a third of the players will be absent, the game is cancelled for the week. This led to about a two month span where we had no gaming.

My thoughts on Pathfinder? Generally, I like it. Combat flows pretty well, and with five players, in a generally balanced manner. No zerg rush!